Cassie, Tom Wright and guests look at The End of the Morning, the never-before-published novel by the Australian writer Charmian Clift, who died in 1969. 

Plus, The Alternatives by Ireland’s Caoilinn Hughes, and Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange, about the consequences of colonisation and the forced assimilation of Native Americans, which is already generating high praise.

BOOKS

The End of the Morning, Charmian Clift (New South)

Wandering Stars, Tommy Orange (Penguin Random House)

The Alternatives, Caoilinn Hughes (A&U)

GUESTS

Nicole Abadee, Books writer, podcaster and festival moderator who regularly interviews at writers festivals and literary events. Contributor to Good Weekend magazine. 

Paul Daley, Walkley award-winning columnist for The Guardian who regularly writes on Indigenous affairs. He is also a novelist, short story writer, essayist and playwright. His latest novel is Jesustown

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDGeroge Johnston, Meredith TrilogyRandolph Stow, The Merry-Go-Round in the SeaHal Porter, The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony  Sumner Locke Elliott, Careful He Might Hear YouHazzard and Harrower (Edited by Brigitta Olubas, Susan Wyndham)Shankari Chandran, Safe Haven James Bradley, Deep WaterHenry Handel Richardson, Maurice GuestIvy Compton-Burnett, The Present and the Past

CREDITS

• Presenter, Cassie McCullagh + Tom Wright
• Producer,  Cassie McCullagh + Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Craig Tilmouth + Roi Huberman
• Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown